Best Inks For Finicky Pens?

[infinitum]

I've got a couple of pens that just don't take to my more "modest" inks, for whatever reason (Noodler's and Diamine especially). So far I've resorted to inking them with Iroshizuku, but that seems like a costly solution. What inks play well with finicky pens? Any color works, really, as I don't mind using my other pens for more formal matters where one might need a black or blue ink.

[ac12]

What do you mean by "finicky?"

 

If you mean hard starting, and skipping, try a wet ink like Waterman.

- If it does not flow with Waterman ink, you need to adjust the nib.

 

If you mean too much ink, and it drools, try a dry ink like Pelikan.

 

Those are the 2 inks I use to match to pens.

[OakIris]

More details as to what you consider a finicky pen and why your inks don't "play nice" with them would be helpful - too dry, too wet, too prone to clogging?? (oops - ac12 beat me to it!)

 

Some vendors will not honor their pen warranties if Noodler or Private Reserve inks are used, claiming that these inks are too saturated, cause damage to sacs, clog up feeds, etc. None of my pens have had a problem with these inks - or with Diamine inks, either - but I do avoid using these inks in anything but modern pens that can be fully disassembled for a good cleaning.

 

Some very safe, well-behaved, non-saturated inks are those made by Parker, Waterman and Sheaffer. These manufacturers may not give you such a wide choice of colors and properties as do Noodlers/PR/etc., but their inks are often recommended for use in vintage pens - and you said you didn't care about color.

 

Holly

Edited August 21, 2014 by OakIris

[amberleadavis]

Would you mind if I made this an inky TOD?

[LamyOne]

I've got a couple of pens that just don't take to my more "modest" inks, for whatever reason (Noodler's and Diamine especially). So far I've resorted to inking them with Iroshizuku, but that seems like a costly solution. What inks play well with finicky pens? Any color works, really, as I don't mind using my other pens for more formal matters where one might need a black or blue ink.

 

Hello Infinitum,

 

No if's, and's or but's --> WATERMAN. They will never let you down when it comes to performance.

 

Best regards,

 

Chris

 

PS: Aurora Black is also pretty good - and a nice, deep black.

Edited August 24, 2014 by LamyOne

[Icywolfe]

How about DeAtramentis inks?

[Mart]

I've had great success with Diamine Twilight in a very dry nib. It is my favorite ink as of now. I love its color and behavior.

[Sasha Royale]

Soak and flush ! Soak and flush ! Soak and flush ! Soak and flush ! Rinse. Dry.

Pelikan Royal Blue. Quink.

Which pens ?

[arcadeflow]

I'm only using Pilot pens right now and I made a thread about a flow problem I was having with my inks (Diamine and Sheaffer). I was fine for a moment because I had some Pilot cartridges to use, then I started inking them with my ink bottles and I noticed flow problems.

 

People recommended me regular Pilot/Namiki inks, Iroshizuku and Waterman inks mostly. My pens are a fine nib Prera, medium nib 78G and 3 fine nib Petit1's currently. These are all considered fine/extra fine nibs in the West, so I guess any ink recommendation for fine nibs might work, but Pilot has some feeds that seem to control the flow (as in they are not known for being wet pens) which is kind of nice if you want your inks to dry faster and use the back of the page, but they don't work well with some inks. A lot of people cut these feeds deeper to make the pens wetter.

 

What I learned now is that if I want to buy any ink I find beautiful, I must own a variety of nib sizes and different brands of pens, and ink them up according to their own "mood", otherwise we will be left with bad behaving inks for those pens. Unless we only buy easy flow inks like Waterman is known to be, but it can also make a very wet pen an ink spiller/dripper. That is how I understood why some companies are fine witht heir inks being less free flowing, some pens actually will behave better with them.